Ticket-case.



PATENTED APR. 12, 1904. .A. H. SELLARS.

TICKET CASE;

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UNiren STATES Patented April 12, 1904.

ALBERT H. SELLARS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

TICKET-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,985, dated April12, 1904..

Application filed July 11, 1903.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. 'SnLLAns, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Cases, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The ticket-cases ordinarily used in railwayoffices occupy a great dealof room, as they must be large enough to permit a multitude of forms oftickets to hangin such position as to be all exposed to view, whichnecessitates that each ticket-form which is behind another shall extendupward beyond said other in order to be seen. The keeping of coupontickets in drawers has not been considered practical, for the reason,among others, that they are of greatly varying lengths, and thereforenot readily capable of being provided for in such a way as to keep themfrom slipping about into positions rendering them diflicult to handle.

It is the object of my invention to provide a ticket-case which shall becomparatively small and compact and which shall at the same time keepthe tickets all suitably divided and hold them to the desired place,while providing convenient means for their removal from time to time, asrequired. 7

A further object is to embody in the same structure a suitable workingtable or desk for the use of the ticket-seller in filling up, stamping,dating, and otherwise preparing the tickets for sale, and the case alsocontains com par'tments for card-tickets, a cash-drawer,surplus-ticket-storage receptacles, and the like and all within thecompass of an ordinary standing table or desk.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure1 is a front elevation of a cabinet embodying these features andconstructed in accordance with my present invention; Fig. 2, a plan viewof one of the coupon-ticketholding drawers; Fig. 3, adetail sectionalview of a fragment of such a drawer, on a considerably-enlarged scale,illustrating more fully its construction; Fig. 4-, a plan view of one ofthe card-ticket-holding drawers as seen when looking in the directionindicated by the ar- Serial No. 165,072. (No model.)

rows from the dotted line 4: 4 in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5, a detail sectionalview, on an enlarged scale, of a fragment of the drawer shown in Fig. 4as seen when looking in the direction indicated by the arrows from thedotted line 5 5 in Fig. 4.

The cabinet 10 as a whole is built of about the height of an ordinarystanding desk, having a flat top or table portion 12 for the use of theagent when doing his work, as before described. Between said top and thebase 18 are the series of drawers for the use indicated. The drawers 1&for holding the coupon tickets are shallow and are divided lengthwise bypartitions 15, leaving compartments of just the width to comfortablyreceive ordinary coupon railroad tickets. Within the space thus formedand near the front ends thereof I place pins 16 a short distance backfrom the front side of the drawer and about centrally (as to theirwidth) of each of the ticket-spaces. In loading these drawers I placethe tickets of the several varieties in the respective compartments,arranging them in such order as I may wish, and in doing so put theholes in the agents stubs of said tickets over the said pins, thussecuring the tickets in a fixed relation to the drawer-spaces in whichthey are contained and precluding the possibility of their sliding offand getting into a disorderly arrangement. Notwithstanding the coupontickets are of numerous lengths, I am thus enabled to secure the upperor stub portions at the points desired and am able to disregard thequestion of length of spaces and still keep the tickets always in properposition in the front portions of said spaces. By this arrangement ofnumerous shallow drawers and narrow spaces I am enabled to put a verylarge quantity of tickets into a comparatively small space.

In the arrangement of cabinet shown the central drawers 21 are designedfor card-tickets. These are less numerous than coupon tickets, andtherefore require a less number of spaces. In the arrangement shown Iput two-rows of card-ticket boxes into the front end of each of thesecomparatively large drawers, dividing same by partitions 22, 2 3, and24:, leaving the remainder of the drawers as receptacles within which tostore the principal supply. As shown in Fig. 5, I make the bottoms 25 ofthese small ticket-spaces inclined, with the highest portion toward thefront, so that I am enabled to easily pull off the tickets one by one asrequired by frictional contact of the fingers therewith. These inclinedbottoms, as shown in Fig. 5, should be somewhat shorter than the ticketswhich rest thereon, so as to permit them to be conveniently removedwhenever desired, the space thus left affording convenient room for theinsertion of the fingers. I also place ribs on the side walls of theseticket-compartments just in front of the points to which the ticketsextend and which serve as guides to keep the tickets in place. Inremoving the tickets the front corners will slide up these ribs, andthese having narrow surfaces occasion but little friction and permit thetickets to be pulled out easily.

I prefer to provide my cabinet with an ordinary roll-curtain 31, bywhich all the drawers can be inclosed and locked with a single key.

By means of my improved ticket-cabinet I am not only enabled to savespace, which is frequently a matter of considerable importance in uptownor city ticket-selling ofiices as well as railway-stations, where spaceis highly valuable, but am also enabled to save materially in theinitial expense, as a cabinet of this sort costs but little more thanthe ordinary standing desk, which has in any event to be provided, whilethe wall-cases usually provided Within which to hang the coupon ticketsare wholly avoided and the expense thereof thus entirely saved. Theconcentration of all these matters in one structure also results in amaterial saving of time, as the ticket-seller is not required to leavehis desk and go to another part of the room, as Where wall-cases areemployed.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a ticket-cabinet, drawers containing comparatively long narrowcompartments provided near their forward ends with ticketreceiving pins,whereby the tickets when placed therein are held to desired position,substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a ticket-cabinet, of drawers containing amultiplicity of long comparatively narrow compartments arranged to fitthe tickets to be contained therein, a pin arranged at the forward endof each compartment and adapted to extend through the perforations inthe agents stubs in said tickets, the top of said cabinet forming atable or desk for the ticket-sellers use in doing his work,substantially as set forth.

3. In a ticket-cabinet, ticketcontaining drawers provided near theirforward ends with ticket-receiving pins adapted to pass through holes inthe ends of the tickets and hold said tickets to desired position,substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my handand seal, at Indianapolis,Indiana, this 9th day of July, A. D. 1903.

ALBERT H. SELLARS.

